She Looks Just Like You : A Memoir of (Nonbiological Lesbian) Motherhood

English

ISBN: 0807001511

EAN: 9780807001516

Category: Biography & Autobiography / Women/Biography & Autobiography / Gay & Lesbian/Social Science / Gender Studies/Family & Relationships / Alternative Family/Family & Relationships / Parenting / Motherhood/

Publisher: Beacon Press

Release Date: 05/01/2011

Synopsis: After ten years of talking about having children, two years of trying (and failing) to conceive, and one shot of donor sperm for her partner, Amie Miller was about to become a mother. Or something like that. Over the next nine months, as her partner became the biological mom-to-be, Miller became . . . what? Mommy???s little helper? A faux dad? As a midwestern, station wagon???driving, stay-at-home mom-and as a nonbiological lesbian mother-Miller both defines and defies the norm. Like new parents everywhere, she wrestled with the anxieties and challenges of first-time parenthood but experienced pregnancy and birth only vicariously. Part love story, part comedy, part quest, Miller???s candid and often humorous memoir is a much-needed cultural roadmap for becoming a parent, even when the usual categories do not fit.

Awards: Lambda Literary Awards – null  Minnesota Book Awards – null 

She Looks Just Like You : A Memoir of (Nonbiological Lesbian) Motherhood

Illustrated: No

Format: Paperback

Height: 0.64 inches

Width: 5.5 inches

Length: 8.5 inches

Weight: 11.53 oz

Pages: 248